Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	97.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 08 '18 at 02:33
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 92.8 1-Core 130 2-Core 256 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 483 8-Core 724 75% 604 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3707) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2042 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.4% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 127 Parallax 109 102% 120 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 111 Splatting 109 88% 108 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 500GB-$84 19,345 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 227GB free (System drive) Firmware: X411 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 868 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 261 (A5) Unknown 100 100 13172899 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 407 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 31 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 65 279173726234 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 197570330670 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1018 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1776 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1537 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1524 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	79.5% Very good	Read 492 Write 221 Mixed 289 73% 334 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 77.6 4K Mixed 19.7 123% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 45 84% 172 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 107%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 178 5983 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1267 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7514 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 904 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 48617 (C2) HDA temperature 125 103 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	76.4% Very good	Read 140 Write 126 Mixed 112 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.22 100% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 21.1 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 23 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 104%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $694

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16